"The Cat Came Back" Definitive version You Choose!
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"The Cat Came Back" Definitive version You Choose!
We are all aware of the age old song "The Cat Came Back"
Recently however it has come to my attention that there is another Song... One, an old Canadian cartoon, and the other one rendered by The Muppets. BUT! Which do you consider to be the definitive version? YOU must choose!
The Muppets
old Canadian cartoon
Recently however it has come to my attention that there is another Song... One, an old Canadian cartoon, and the other one rendered by The Muppets. BUT! Which do you consider to be the definitive version? YOU must choose!
The Muppets
old Canadian cartoon
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Canadian version is closer to what I learned.
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wilfulton on Bible genetics: "If two screaming lunatics copulate in front of another screaming lunatic, the result will be yet another screaming lunatic. "
SirNitram: "The nation of France is a theory, not a fact. It should therefore be approached with an open mind, and critically debated and considered."
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Canadian Version is frankly just awesome.
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They still show that on CN from time to time and I vastly prefer it over the Muppet version. It's a more interesting take on it.
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Neither, for there is a different and far better melody. I have never seen it dramatized to this tune, but it is what I learned at home.
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Canadian cartoon version, for certain, it's the one I remember from when I was a child.
どうして?お前が夜に自身お触れるから。
Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
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Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
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The one I learned around the campfire is most similar to the Canadian version, but it's also significantly different.
Old Farmer Johnson had a problem of his own:
He had an old cat that just wouldn't leave him alone.
He tried and he tried
To give that cat away,
But each time he tried it came back the next day!
Oh, the cat came back
The very next day.
The cat came back --
Thought he was a goner, but
The cat came back.
He just wouldn't stay away, away, away -
Hey, hey, hey!
Gave it to a boy, with a dollar note.
Told him to take that cat out in a boat,
tie a rock around its neck --
Weighed a hundred pounds --
Now we say our prayers for that little boy who drowned, but ...
Chorus
Gave it to a man going out west;
Told him to give it to the one he loved best.
The train jumped the track,
And then it skipped a rail.
No one survived to tell the gruesome tale, but ...
Chorus
Gave it to a man going up in a balloon,
Told him to give it to the man in the moon.
Balloon came down
Ninety miles away,
And where that man is to this day I can't say, but ...
Chorus
Old Farmer Johnson swore he'd shoot that cat on sight.
He loaded up his gun with nails and dynamite,
Waited for that cat
To come around the bend.
Ninety-seven pieces of man was all that they found, but ...
Chorus.
A-bomb fell, just the other day.
H-bomb fell in the very same way.
England went.
Russia went.
And then the U. S. A. ... .
The human race
Was destroyed
Without a trace ... .
HOWEVER
Chorus.
Old Farmer Johnson had a problem of his own:
He had an old cat that just wouldn't leave him alone.
He tried and he tried
To give that cat away,
But each time he tried it came back the next day!
Oh, the cat came back
The very next day.
The cat came back --
Thought he was a goner, but
The cat came back.
He just wouldn't stay away, away, away -
Hey, hey, hey!
Gave it to a boy, with a dollar note.
Told him to take that cat out in a boat,
tie a rock around its neck --
Weighed a hundred pounds --
Now we say our prayers for that little boy who drowned, but ...
Chorus
Gave it to a man going out west;
Told him to give it to the one he loved best.
The train jumped the track,
And then it skipped a rail.
No one survived to tell the gruesome tale, but ...
Chorus
Gave it to a man going up in a balloon,
Told him to give it to the man in the moon.
Balloon came down
Ninety miles away,
And where that man is to this day I can't say, but ...
Chorus
Old Farmer Johnson swore he'd shoot that cat on sight.
He loaded up his gun with nails and dynamite,
Waited for that cat
To come around the bend.
Ninety-seven pieces of man was all that they found, but ...
Chorus.
A-bomb fell, just the other day.
H-bomb fell in the very same way.
England went.
Russia went.
And then the U. S. A. ... .
The human race
Was destroyed
Without a trace ... .
HOWEVER
Chorus.
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